Appalachia

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• Pumpkin Roll

  
  Blind Pig & The Acorn — Authority: 415
  After I posted the Oatmeal Dinner Roll recipe-one of my friends said-"what you should have told them about is your pumpkin roll." So I am. Over the years Ive seen different recipes for Pumpkin Rolls-the one I use comes from... (Please-click on the title to continue reading-thank you!)
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• A body can take comfort in layin herself out on the quiltin of patch quilt

  
  Appalachian History — Authority: 127
  “I’m proud to see you,” said Aunt Cynthy. “Go in, ef you can get in for the children, or ef you are willin’, we can talk right hyar. I couldn’t miss the first good quiltin’ weather this spring. All winter I piece and patch, me and the gals, and when pretty weather comes I set up my frame right hyar ...
  19 hours ago

• Clean Energy Jobs Blow In (not Blow Up) Coal River Mountain

  
  Get Energy Smart! NOW!!! — Authority: 564
  This is part of a series of brief posts on ‘clean energy jobs’ opportunities for sparking meaningful employment, quickly, in the United States as discussed in Clean Energy Jobs: Stimulate Me.Clean Energy Jobs Blow In (not blow up) Coal River Mountain: $250 million per year for 5000 jobsWe often hear about how coal ...
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• Divining for water

  
  Appalachian History — Authority: 127
  Water witching (rhabdomancy) is very common in West Virginia. According to a study done about fifty years ago, at that time there were twenty-five thousand practicing water witches in this country. The actual practice of divining with a forked stick, as we know it, began in the late fifteenth or early sixteenth ...
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• Appalachia, Southeast Hit Hardest by Obesity and Diabetes (HealthDay)

  
  Blogger — Authority: 167
  HealthDay – THURSDAY, Nov. 19 (HealthDay News) — While rates of obesity are climbing across America, they are especially high in sections of Appalachia and the Southeast, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports in its first county-by-county survey. Originally posted here: ...
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• Video: Obesity in South costs entire country

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 473
  Nov. 19: The CDC on Thursday released a county-by-county breakdown of obesity and type II diabetes in the U.S., revealing that the highest concentration of both is found in Appalachia and the deep South Read more here: Video: Obesity in South costs entire country
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• More Obesity, Diabetes in South, Appalachia

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 160
  The CDC says the prevalence of obesity and diabetes in the U.S. is much higher in the South and Appalachian region than in most areas of the West and Northeast.
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• DRIFTING FOR A DAY

  
  Viceland Today — Authority: 146
  Gerald and John Beckett are known as Pete and Repeat, the two hobo brothers of Parkersburg, West Virginia. They’re 71- and 73-year-old retired nomads with identical hunched stances and scruffy white facial hair. They dress exactly the same as each other every day, walk along the highway for hours at a time with ...
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• US survey shows southern counties most obese

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 160
  ATLANTA (AP) -- The first county-by-county survey of obesity reflects past studies that show the rate of obesity is highest in the Southeast and Appalachia....
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• The Santa Train pulls into town

  
  Appalachian History — Authority: 127
  In Appalachia Santa Claus comes the weekend before Thanksgiving. Since 1943, the Santa Special, more commonly known as the Santa Train, has traveled 110 miles through the mountains of eastern Kentucky, southwest Virginia and northeastern Tennessee to distribute loads of candy, toys and other goodies to eager ...
  4 days ago

• What’s Wrong With This Picture: Mahindra MIA Edition

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 459
  Autoblog ran this picture purporting to show the locations of future dealers of Mahindra and Mahindra pickup trucks. This piqued our interest because we’ve been curious to see how the Indian firm’s plans to bring diesel-only compact pickups and SUVs to the US market would play out for some time. Over a year ago ...
  5 days ago

• Appalachian Vocabulary Test 13

  
  Blind Pig & The Acorn — Authority: 415
  Time for this months Vocabulary Test: Gall Gander Give out Give in Go devil Gall-nerve. "The gall of her to talk about me after I bent over backwards to help her!" Gander-look, stare. "Take a gander at that set of... (Please-click on the title to continue reading-thank you!)
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• The Maupins, the Walkers, and Tennessee Lead

  
  Appalachian History — Authority: 127
  The ‘Walker’ is today the most popular of the American Foxhound dog breed. This breed can be traced to Madison County, KY and a stolen hound called Tennessee Lead. According to legend, drover Tom Harris stole the hound out of a deer chase in Tennessee a few miles south of Albany, Kentucky in November 1852. Harris ...
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• She didn’t need a thing except to get interested in something

  
  Appalachian History — Authority: 127
  Citizen (Berea, Ky.) Thursday, July 7, 1910. "Keep Busy" It is not money that is the root of all evil. It is idleness. Idleness leads to poverty, Idleness invites disease. Idleness breeds crime. Everywhere people are to be found who seem to put but little value upon time. They may know the full worth of a ...
  6 days ago

• Shuler’s Land Deal May Cost Him His Seat

  
  Carolina Politics Online — Authority: 138
  Heath Shuler (D-NC-11) may be in serious reelection trouble next year for a couple of reasons.  For one, he’s a Democrat representing a district that voted for both John McCain and George Bush and was held by a Republican representative for 12 years prior to Shuler winning the office.  The country has been slowly ...
  1 week ago

• James Camak botches surveying the GA/TN border. Twice.

  
  Appalachian History — Authority: 127
  James Camak started his career as a professor at University of Georgia, left to make a fortune in banking, and went on to become president of Georgia’s first railroad company, a respected newspaper editor, a professor at University of Georgia (again!), and a Trustee of the college. One thing he was not though, was ...
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• Hiking the Appalachian Trail?

  
  Hiking Lady — Authority: 117
  A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson If you want to read a humorous, well-written tale of a man’s journey with his friend hiking the Appalachian Trail, this book is for you. Bill Bryson, a trail novice at the outset of the book, tells his first-person story of his decision to hike the trail, ...
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• Well the son-of-a-gun pecked in, now let him peck out

  
  Appalachian History — Authority: 127
  Nationally recognized herbalist Tommie Bass (1908-1996) was the subject of scholarly and popular books, television features, a front-page essay in the Wall Street Journal, and numerous articles in newspapers and magazines. Bass lived almost his entire life in the Tennessee Valley and Ridge section of Alabama, ...
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• Coal country Democratic lawmakers seek extension of Bush mining rules

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 677
  The conflict between environmental protection and coal extraction is a long simmering political flashpoint in the Appalachian states, which are home to some of the largest coal deposits in the world. Now, amid the extended national unemployment crisis — and with the Obama administration showing signs of cracking ...
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• King Coal: Wise Monarch or Cruel and Ruthless Despot?

  
  popular logistics — Authority: 124
  Chris Dorst, Charleston, WV Gazette. According to Mortality Rates in Appalachian Coal Mining Counties: 24 Years Behind the Nation , by Michael Hendryx, of the Department of Community Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, http://www.sludgesafety.org/health/Mortality_Coal.pdf , mortality is 10.21 % ...
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